How Many Team Members?

Discussion in 'Member and Staff Management' started by Nick, May 27, 2009.

  1. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    How many team members (moderators, administrators, etc.) do you have? At what point do you find it necessary to add more moderators?
     
  2. Ryan

    Ryan Regular Member

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    2 Admins.
    1 Super Mod... Looking for another
    6 Mods... 3-4 active?
     
  3. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    We have a section to solicit such wants, here. :D
     
  4. Chris

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    At the moment (on my most active forum), I have six team members - two of whom are co-administrators.
     
  5. Justin S.

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    Just two: myself and a security guard (super moderator). All we really need, to be honest.
     
  6. Boss

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    1 or 2 admins, and about 3-5 moderators is sufficient for most forums out there. :)
     
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    1 other administrator... No moderators.

    Here's my ratio; 1:4,000 posts - one moderator per four thousand posts.
     
  8. Ryan

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    I see what you did there ;)
     
  9. Nick

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    Sneaky, eh? :unhunh:
     
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    It really depends of the size of the forum but when i start a new forum then there is me and maybe 1 smod and when it gets bigger i add more moderators depending of how much i need them.
     
  11. Chris

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    It really does depend on the size and activity of a forum. I've seen some discussion communities start out with five administrators and three super moderators. Is there really any need for that? Eh...
     
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    I do not think there is a need for that unless you start of very big and gets many users the first day or two, and that is not very likely that it will happend.
     
  13. Chris

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    Exactly. Unless a newly created community suddenly receives an influx of major activity, there is no need for a staff team that large (in the beginning).
     
  14. Nick

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    I agree. An over-staffed team can probably kill a forum rather quickly.
     
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    Not to mention the "intimidation" factor - a new member decides to join a newly created forum (with no threads or posts) and then realizes that there are eight staff members online.
     
  16. Nick

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    Hence the quick death. :D
     
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    Can you imagine? This one member decides to join a forum and receives eight welcome PM's. :D
     
  18. Nick

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    :lol: I'd get the vibe of desperation and leave anyways.

    And then I accidentally post in the wrong forum and get eight warning PMs or something. :p
     
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    Hehe that misstake was one i made when i was like eleven or something and created my first forum, it was an fansite for the game Tibia that i used to play and i had like more then half of the members at the beginning as smods. It was like 10 members :p But i learned of my misstake and i was just a kid back then :)
     
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    Ugh, it'd be frightening - particularly for someone who may be knew to the "forum world".
     

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